[Air-L] informatization

Barry Wellman wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Sun Jul 8 15:40:29 PDT 2012


I think  you all have it right.
"informatization" is one of the family of "zations" - often blame for the 
world's ills or successes -- like urbanization, industrialization, 
bureaucratization.

You can look it up in the periodic table of utopia/dystopia - with a xlink 
to Creative Class.


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